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smokedice
smokedice

Reputation: 1020

Print D-Bus introspection tree

How can I print out a tree of all the available information on D-Bus?

*Bus Name
    * Interface
        *Method
            *Signature
    * Interface
        *Method
            *Signature
        *Method
            *Signature
*Bus Name
    * Interface
        *Method
            *Signature

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1989

Answers (3)

Philip Withnall
Philip Withnall

Reputation: 5713

As well as D-Feet (mentioned in an earlier answer), the gdbus command line tool will allow introspection of a particular object path on a given unique or well-known bus name:

$ gdbus introspect --session --dest org.gnome.Contacts --object-path /org/gnome/Contacts
node /org/gnome/Contacts {
  interface org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties {
    methods:
      Get(in  s interface_name,
          in  s property_name,
          out v value);
      …
    signals:
      PropertiesChanged(s interface_name,
                        a{sv} changed_properties,
                        as invalidated_properties);
    properties:
  };
  …
}

Upvotes: 2

Amit Tomar
Amit Tomar

Reputation: 4858

You can use the dbus debugging tools like DFeet to see everything exposed over the DBus in a nice structured fashion.

Upvotes: 3

smokedice
smokedice

Reputation: 1020

I have created a git repository to demonstrate how to solve this problem: https://github.com/smokedice/PyDBusTree

The code is rather slow because it doesn't use call backs. If anyone would like to improve the code please post it here, or push to the repository.

Upvotes: 1

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